checkmates

How many checkmates can there be in a single game?

NARAL Endorses Obama -- Hillary Spokesperson Is "Surprised" 2009

It is much like trying to make an offensive move on a giant chess board only to discover ourselves in the crossfire of multiple checkmates.

Tri Robinson: The Past as Our Future 2009

That's why if Obama says, I'd send Bill Clinton too, it's a no-brainer, it completely checkmates the whole argument.

Bill Clinton: Hillary Will Call Upon Bush 41 2009

If it was a tournament, Boitumelo Keinyatse would have suffered several fool's checkmates after the chain of blunders he has made as Botswana Chess Federation BCF president.

Chess, Goddess and Everything Jan 2008

If it was a tournament, Boitumelo Keinyatse would have suffered several fool's checkmates after the chain of blunders he has made as Botswana Chess Federation BCF president.

Archive 2008-12-01 Jan 2008

Kosteniuk's typically aggressive opening gambit -- in this case, the "Sicilian defense," where the black pawn tries to control the center of the board -- pays off; after dozens of quick moves, she checkmates her opponent.

The Chess Goddess 2007

But if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who knows little of persons or parties, of Carolina or Cuba, but who announces a law that disposes these particulars, and so certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player, bankrupts every self-seeker, and apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or time, or human body, — that man liberates me; I forget the clock.

Representative Men 2006

This reminds me of the type of chess problem I used to see in the newspaper, wherein the challenge is for White to win one pawn, but along the way occur casualties of rooks, bishops, knights, queens, and threatened checkmates.

Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995

This reminds me of the type of chess problem I used to see in the newspaper, wherein the challenge is for White to win one pawn, but along the way occur casualties of rooks, bishops, knights, queens, and threatened checkmates.

Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995

A Virginia tobacco-factory checkmates that innocent tipple with "negrohead" and "navy twist."

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various